Rikichi Ando

Rikichi Ando (3 April 1884-19 April 1946) was Governor-General of Formosa under Japan from 30 December 1944 to October 1945, succeeding Kiyoshi Hasegawa.

Biography
Rikichi Ando was born on 3 April 1884 and graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1904, and from 1925 to 1927 he was Japan's military attaché to British India. In 1938, Ando was made commander-in-chief of the Japanese 21st Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War with China, but he was recalled to Tokyo in early 1941 after taking part in the unauthorized Japanese invasion of French Indochina, which led to the United States emplacing an oil embargo against Japan. In 1944 he became Governor-General of Formosa, and the army never fought against any Allied Powers forces before its surrender, and he was charged with war crimes after the end of World War II during his tenure in China. However, he took poison while in prison in Shanghai to avoid being tried.